Editor’s Pick. Lecture excerpt by Siri Singh Sahib Ji. In childhood you have never been taught responsibility. You have been shoved and pushed and ordered. The majority of your childhood I have seen in this country is regimented. Nobody uses heart. It is all head thing. So this kind of childhood is very painful. I…
Category: Peaceful Parenting
Treating Children as Individuals
Guest column by Sara Dawkins. Sara is an active nanny, as well as an active freelance writer. She is a frequent contributor to Nannypro.com. Learn more about her here. Being born in the late fifties and being raised by my dad who was a product of the world around WWII and the Korean War was…
Things I Learned When I Stopped Yelling At My Kids
Editor’s Pick. Written by The Orange Rhino. Someone asked me this past weekend, “So, what were your findings from not yelling for a year? Did you learn anything?” Huh. Pretty good question. And it got me thinking, “Well, what did I learn?” I’ll tell you this: I learned a lot, a lot more than I…
A Kid’s Life
Editor’s Pick. Written by Darci Walker. Nine-year-old David comes home, throws his backpack on the floor and stomps off to his room. Several minutes later he is lurking around the kitchen while his mom cooks dinner, poking at his brother, whining to his mother. She tells him to go outside and play until dinner is…
Ten Ways To Confuse a Child
Editor’s Pick. Written by Vickie Bergman. If he’s yelling, yell at him: STOP YELLING! IT’S NOT NICE TO YELL. Tell him never to talk to strangers because it’s dangerous, but then tell him he is rude when he won’t say hello back to the cashier at the grocery store. Tell him he should never let…
What Makes a Consequence Logical?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Kelly Bartlett for PositiveParentingConnection.net. Throughout our endeavors in positive parenting, the terms “natural consequences” and “logical consequences” are frequently tossed around. It is helpful to understand the differences between natural consequences and logical consequences, as well as to understand when a response is punitive. Parenting with Positive Discipline means striving to…
Helping Children Learn To Overcome Frustration & Failures
Editor’s Pick. Written by Ariadne for PositiveParentingConnection.net. Growing up, children are bound to experience frustration and failure. Many parents are very quick to protect their child from any upsets in fear that it will scar their self-esteem, but often it is all that rescuing that may be detrimental. Moments of difficulty and challenge actually help…
In Defense of Children
Editor’s Pick. Written by The Perturbed Patriot for NoMoreCages.com. As my children grew, I, like most parents taught my sons that it was not ok to hit, or to take what isn’t theirs. Violence, taking, bullying and lying were punished with the loss of privileges and an attempt on my part to help my sons…
Do You Fight In Front of Your Kids?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Laura Markham for AhaParenting.com. In the past, most experts reassured parents that there’s no harm in children seeing them fight, as long as the kids also see the parents make up afterwards. However, recent developments in neurological research challenge this view. Not surprisingly, it turns out that when children hear angry…
Every Moment Counts
Written by Kelly Bartlett for Parenting From Scratch. All of our children’s experiences build foundational circuitry in the brain. New neural pathways form with each interaction and communication our kids have every day. So all those little moments that your kids will not remember from their early childhoods–the conversations, daily carpool rides, trips to the…